Budget Entity Category

The upcoming chart details the following supervision categories, which are based on budget allocations provided by the Legislature. These categories are mutually exclusive and have been ranked in the order listed below:

Probation, including Felony, Misdemeanor and Administrative Probation and youthful offenders.

These supervision groupings reflect the allocation of officers necessary to meet the needs of specialized caseloads. For example, the ratio of officer to offenders needs to be lower for specialized caseloads of community control and sex offenders than it does for probation or administrative cases.

However, while these groupings provide an accurate picture of the types of offenders that are on supervision, the numbers in this chart may not match those published in the previous section of this report. For example, this chart lists the number of probationers on supervision as 84,613. The previous section lists this number as 88,992 - which is the correct number of offenders on this type of supervision. However, of the 88,992 probationers, 4,379 are sex offenders. Therefore, in this section, these offenders appear in this category rather than "Probation."